Race to the bottom: Mexico lowers wages to snare international auto production

[The Amazing Messenger]

Mexican auto unions are taking a cue from U.S. labor leaders by offering two-tier hiring schemes and salary cuts that bring already low wages down to near-Chinese levels.

"The pressure has not been to raise the Mexican wages up, it's been to push the U.S. wages down," said Ben Davis, the director of the AFL-CIO Solidarity office in Mexico City.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/04/business/LA-FIN-Mexico-Auto-Advantage.php

This was precisely the point of NAFTA - to bring American wages down, rather than lift foreign countries' wages up.